Tạ Đức vs. Hà Văn Thùy and the Lack of a Professional Alternative
Summer is here. It is time for me to take a break from posting to this blog. So I will write this one last blog entry and then will take…
Legrand de la Liraye and the Missing Word for Nation in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam
I mentioned in the post below that in the 1860s a Frenchman by the name of Théophile Marie Legrand de la Liraye published a book called Notes historiques sur la…
Legrand de la Liraye’s 1865 History of the Annamite People
I’ve recently been reading a book that Théophile Marie Legrand de la Liraye published in (I think) 1865 called Notes historiques sur la nation annamite (Historical Notes on the Annamite…
Premodern Mapmakers and the Question of Sovereignty
I’m really getting tired of seeing people hold up premodern maps as documents that they believe can demonstrate sovereignty. They don’t, and therefore if people want to demonstrate an historical…
Getting High (on Music) at the Pink Pussycat in 1970s Singapore
On 18 November 1973, The Straits Times ran an article on its front page announcing that the Liquor Licensing Board was cancelling the liquor licenses for 12 discotheques and nightclubs…